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<h2>Visual versus Verbal Performance</h2>

<h3>Description</h3>

<p>Experiment to compare visual and verbal performance
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<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A data frame with 80 observations on the following 5 variables.
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<dt><code>Subject</code></dt><dd><p>Subject number (<code>s1</code> to <code>s20</code>)</p>
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<dt><code>Task</code></dt><dd><p>Follow a letter (<code>Visual</code>) or a sentence (<code>Verbal</code>)</p>
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<dt><code>Report</code></dt><dd><p>Point response (<code>Visual</code>) or say response (<code>Verbal</code>)</p>
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<dt><code>Group</code></dt><dd><p>Combination of Task+Report (<code>Letter Point</code>, <code>Letter Say</code>, <code>Sentence Point</code>, or <code>Sentence Say</code>)</p>
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<dt><code>Time</code></dt><dd><p>Response time (in seconds)</p>
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<h3>Details</h3>

<p>Subjects carried out two kinds of tasks, one visual (identify letters), one verbal (identify sentences); and to report the results in either of two ways, one visual (pointing at a response), one verbal (speaking a response).  Time to complete each task was recorded in seconds.
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<h3>Source</h3>

<p>Original experiment from Brooks, L., R. (1968)  &quot;Spatial and verbal components of the act of recall,&quot; Canadian J. Psych. V 22, pp. 349 - 368.  These data collected from a Mount Holyoke College psychology class.
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